empower

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For nearly a decade, journalists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: Does covering extremists expose them or empower them?

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It will empower you to know how the software works and actually how easy it can be to file.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

The targeting clearly shows a strategy to degrade the regime’s apparatus of repression, but risks harming the very prisoners it is intended to empower, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

“Used thoughtfully, it can empower our storytellers, strengthen our capabilities, and help us create more immersive, interactive and personal ways for people to experience Disney,” he wrote in the Wednesday morning note.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

My promise to myself was to survive so that I could escape Little Rock and empower myself with enough education to come back home and change everything.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals